News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-09-08
The Man Who Shot Him---A Singu-
lar Bequest---So Many Eyes
Afraid of Snakes---Stopping a
Leak


his country on account of his country
men, and he declared that he would
spare no opportunity of revenging him.
self for all the infamy cast upon him by
the French Judges. He drew up two
wills at different periods, by which he
left his property of Boissise to Ger
many, represented by the Grown Prince,
with the object of establishing there a
settlement OF young Germans.
TwENTY-FoUR years ago Peter B. Les
sing, now constable of Pottsgrove town
ship, Pa, was a member of the Sixth
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in fight at
Brandy Station, Va, had u hand-to-
hand conflict with a rebel trooper,
which ended in Leasing giving the
Southerner two vicious sabre cuts
across the head and shoulder, so that
he fell from his horse as if dead. The
other day Leasing went to circus at
POttstOwn, and the ring-master's APP
pearance attracted his attention. Les
sing was surprised to find the same tall
slender, black-moustachcd looking in
dividual looking him in the face who
had done his best to cut him down at
Brandy Station in So A moment later
the two were shaking hands, The ring
master owned up that Lessings sabre
cuts and a mimic ball had relocated him
to the hospital for a time with what
were supposed to be fatal wounds, but
he recovered, and was with Lee at APP
pomattoX on the day of final surrender.
The priest of the village of Canicatti,
Sicily, Sunday or two ago preached a
sermon upon the terrors of the Inferno,
and in the midst of his discourse he sud
denly stopp d and exclaimed, in tragi-
cal tones, "Ecco il diavolo!" And there,
sure enough, was seen standing near the
pulpit very ierce-looking demon, all
black, with two great horns on his head
and a long tail trailing upon the floor.
In an instant there was a panic among
the superstitiOuS congregation, and in
the struggle to reach the doors many
women were injured, while others be
came i'll from sheer fright The judicial
inquiry which at once followed plucked
the heart out of the mystery. The priest,
thinking to give ''actuality'' to his ser
mon, had got up one of his acolytes in
the semblance of the devil of tradition. |
The father cannot be very well satisfied |
with the success of his experiment, one
result of which is that he is likely to be |
sent to prison.
An apparatus has been devised by
means of which, it is claimed, breach
in a vessels hull from a collision or
other cause may be effectually closed
from either the inside or outside of the
craft. For closing an opening from the
outside frame made of any appropriate
size, and weighted so as to sink in the
water, is provided. To the edges of one
side of the plate are secured wooden
strips, attached to which are cushions of |
rubber or other suitable material. The |
frame is lowered over the apertures from |
the deck by ropes secured to eyes i'll one |
edge: the pressure of the water causes |
the plate to hug the hull, so that it will
prevent all or nearly all the inflow of
water to the vessel, the cushions form
ing water-tight Joints between the hull
and frame; the inner surface of the plate
is provided with several bolts, to which |
ropes may be attached, in order to secure |
the plate in place from tl4e inside of the !
vessel
A LADY living not many miles from
Charlottesville, Va, is very much afraid |
of snakes. She had always heard that |
when a snake is going to strike it wraps !
the tip of its tail around some object to |
give itself leverage. The other evening |
she retired to her room without light, |
the weather being extremely warm. She |
had been there but a moment when her |
piercing shrieks aroused the other in |
mates, who were informed that a snake |
was on her bed. In passing her hand /
over the bed the snake had wound the /
tip of his tail around her finger, prepar-
atory to striking the death-dealing blow. |
When light was brought the family
found the young lady in fainting CON
dition with her finger inserted in the
ring of a shoe-buttoner.
THE baby farming evil is under dis
cussion at Montreal, and no wonder, for !
of 200 babies given out to one baby far |
mer during the past few years only two |
have survived the age of IS months. !
The subject opens up a social question |
of deep interest. This question the |
most stringent of laws has failed to |
solve Regarding the difficulty of deal |
ing with the children, the nearest APP |
proach to the solution of that problem
has been reached in Halifax, Nova |
Scotia, where the mothers are required |
under pain of prosecution to attend to |
the wants Of their offspring until old |
enough to live ON ordinary food Then |
the mother is allowed to go and the in
FAINT is offered for adoption.
MORE than 1000, 900 glass eyes are
made every year in Germany and Switz-
erland, and one French house manufac-
lures 10000 OF them annually. The |
pupil is made of colored glass, and some
times red lines are painted on the inner
surface to simulate the veins. The
largest number of these eyes are bought
by labOrers who are exposed to fire, and
are consequently liable to lose an eye
The expression of the eyes is almost
solely due to the movement of the upper
eyelids, and this is the reason why we
may see man with glass eye a hun
bred times before his infirmity be dis
covered.
JUDGE J. d. WALKER, of Florence
Arizona, says that the Pima Indians Sc
lect several promising youths of their
tribe from time to time for repositories
of their traditions, and they are carefully
instructed in the historical legends per
tanning to their tribe, being required to
commit them faithfully TO memory.
They in tmn instruct their successors,
and thus preserve the traditions in the
exact language recited by their ancestors
If many years ago. They have lnowl-
edge of the tribe that built the old Casa
Grande and other vast buildings, whose
ruins now excite such curiosity.
A GEORGIA newspaper tells of man
who, riding through the woods near
Americas, heard kissing and cracking
over his head and, looking up, saw a
big ball of fire. 1t struck a large oak
&c with a loud crash and split it open
from top to bottom The tree took fire
at the root, slowly kindling, but burning
fiercer as it increased. The man went
on his way, but returned in few hours,
and the place where the tree stood was
mar:-ed only by a blackened, smoking
hole, where the fire had burned down
into the ground.
EACH set of the four great locks of the
Manchester, Eng, ship canal, now in
process of construction, comprises a
large lock, five hundred and fifty feet 10y
sixty feet; smaller lock, three hundred
feet by forty, for ordinary vessels, and :
one lock one hundred feet by twenty,
for coasters and barges of the smaller =:
size; nd all these are capable of being
worked together. Each set of locks will
be worked by hydraulic power, thus en- l
al ling, it is asserted, vessels to be passed 4;
in the brief period of fifteen minutes
AT Duxbury. Mass; there lives in a 7
lonely old house a most interesting a
character. Capt. John Alden, an old S
man of seventy four, is the only occu- S
pant, He is able to trace his descent | n